Employment, privatization, and managerial choice: Does contracting out reduce public sector employment?

Employment, Privatization, and Managerial Choice: Does Contracting out Reduce Public Sector Employment?

We examine the effects of private sector contracting on public employment using panel data from the Census of Governments and International City/County Management Association surveys conducted in 1997 and 2002. We model decisions about contracting and the size of the public workforce as jointly-dependent decisions affecting both full-time and part-time employment. Our results from a seemingly u...

Contracting-out and governance mechanisms in the public employment service

The contracting-out of job brokerage and case management services is a major international trend in the reform of the Public Employment Service. Instead of a public agency, private providers are contracted to deliver these services for the jobseekers. Australia and the Netherlands have contracted-out (almost) all of this formerly core public service. The U.K. has introduced so-called Employment...

With Whose Hands: Privatization, Public Employment, and Democracy

Contracting - out employment services : temporary agency work in Germany

Privatization and Employment in the Implementation of